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JAMES l M. SMITH, OF CENTRE SANDWICH, N EW IIAMPSHIRE,`

Letters Patent No. 71,336, dated November 26, 186'?.` t

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAXv COME: Be it known that I, JAMES M. SMITH, of" Centre Sandwich, of the county of Carroll, of the State'of New Hampshire,- have invented a new and useful or improved implement forflifting and removing aplate or dish fromor transferring it to a stove or other body; and I do hereby declare the 4saine to be fullydescribed in the following specification, and represented in the aecompenying drawings, of whichi l l Figure 1 is a top View, and Figure 2 a side View of it.

The article in question is to be made from a single piece of wire, it being bent near each end in mannerso. as to form two handles A A, the wire near its extremities being coiled around the part against which it is bent.`

Next the said wire is bent at its middle` und also between the same and the handles so as toform three lips or jawsB C C. Finally that part of the wire containing such jaws, and included between the handles, is bent; in a eirculer form, or an approximation thereto, as represented in the drawings.

l The Inode of using the said lifter will be easily understood, it being only necessary to `seize the edge of tho rim of the plate or dish within and by the three jews, and hold them against the rim by the grasp of thehand` y on and while embracing the hand-les. v

I am aware of Athe fplate-lifter which constitutes` the subject of the Patent, No. 65,616, granted June 11, y i `1867, tonDaniel M. Skinner, and therefore I make no 'claim thereto, ns between it and myimproved device there Aare important di'erences. His lifter has one handle, a spring therein,and twojaws, and it opens atthe handle; whereas my lifter hes three jaws and two handle, and is so formed :1s to enable one to obtain a much firmer and surerfgratsp of a plete,V because the three jaws when in use are drawn upon and entirely or nearly around the plate, and are placed alt vabout one hundred and twenty -degrees apart. t

I claim therefore my improved plate-lifter as made of wire, and with three 'jaws B C C and two handles A A', bent or formed from such wirjegmd.arranged with respect to euch other substantially as ubovedeseribed,

and as represented in the accompanying drawings.

JANIESM.` SMITH.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDYL RP. HALE, Jr, 

